Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on self-taught programmers?
by mouseroot on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @04:41PM
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if you lean more towards web dev...then you most deffeintly dont need school..web programming is dead easy even for a beginner who has never touched programming. application/desktop programming is a little more involved...the main difference being web dev is mostly more cosmetic(eg change something a refresh to see its output) compared to the compile-link and run phase of application dev... I honestly think if your passionate about w/e your learning then your employer(if he/she actually cares about the quality of your work) will hire you without a degree/diploma (im not suggesting you drop out of hs)
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Re:Ask HN: Your opinion on self-taught programmers?
by pestaa on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @04:58PM
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> web programming is dead easy even for a beginner who has never touched programming
That one hurt. Some say it's easy as pie even for a kid, some say it's so complex with all the layers going on. Why can't we never see it as it is?
I also firmly believe that anyone who thinks web development is easier than any other kind of application development should stop writing crappy PHP and improve the quality of her/his own work.